Month: May 2013

“There are a lot of exciting things on the forefront of the dairy industry.

“We are promoting new things to increase healthy eating habits for children through the ‘Fuel Up to Play 60’ program with theNational Football League and fast food chains to incorporate milk and dairy products in diets. Continue reading →

“There’ve been lots of changes in hogs in my lifetime, but the hogs we’re producing now are the best I’ve ever seen.”

Since he started showing home-raised pigs when he was eight years old, Mike Bond is speaking from firsthand experience as he’s seen and produced lots of pigs.

Today, with his wife, Debra, and assistance from their grown children, Brian, Kim and Leah, Bond specializes in show pig production at Valleybrook Farms near Overbrook in Osage County. Continue reading →

That ole familiar Easter time tune came to life during the recent Youth Rabbit Show at Cico Park in Manhattan.

And, the sport of rabbit hopping is rapidly increasing in popularity throughout the country, according to Lil Peck, who attracted considerable attention with a demonstration of rabbit hopping she hosted during the show. Continue reading →

Well, certainly the highest on record, according to the Bluestem Pasture Release – 2013, issued May, 7, 2013, by Kanas Agricultural Statistics at the Kansas Department of Agriculture.

Dale Rodman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Agriculture, said funding has not been available for the past three years to complete the survey of leasing rates for the 14-county Bluestem pasture. Continue reading →